In re Adoption of a Minor

PRETTYMAN, Associate Justice.

This is an appeal from a judgment of the District Court granting adoption of an infant, and from an order denying a motion of the natural mother to vacate the decree of adoption and either to reopen the case for the introduction of further evidence or to grant a new trial on the ground of newly-discovered evidence.

The father and mother of this infant first met in the fall of 1941 in a southern town where they both lived. The child was conceived there out of wedlock in June, 1943. Almost immediately thereafter the father, who was then in the armed forces, entered…